Quotes About Wisdom

All bold, great actions that are seen too near, Look rash and foolish to unthinking eyes; But at a distance they at once appear In their true grandeur.

I only ask to drink experience deep; And, in the sad, sweet goblet of my years, To find love poured with all its smiles and tears, And quaffing this, I too shall sweetly sleep.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

Thor spake: "In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)

In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has cought thee dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)

In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day has caught thee, dwarf! (Now the sun shines here in the hall.)

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.

There's an old saying that if you come back to the place where you became a man, you will remember all those things you need to be happy... That saying never made sense to me, but I thought it was worth a try.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Nothing is sadder than someone who has lost his memory, and the church which has lost its memory is in the same state of senility.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Statistics are no substitue for judgement.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.

Water is the only drink for a wise man.